paries

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A wall of a body part, organ, or cavity. Often used in the plural.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The wall of any cavity in the body.

n. The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n.i. In anatomy and zoology:

n. A wall or inclosure; an envelop or investment; a body-wall; any part which inclosesor bounds a cavity: generally in the plural: as,the thoracic or abdominal parietes (that is,the walls of the chest or belly.

n. In Cirripedia, the free middle part of the shell, as distinguished from the lateral wings.

n. One of the perpendicular partitions separating the cells of a honeycomb or a wasps’ nest.

n. In botany, the side or wall of an ovary or capsule.

n. The central thickened portion of a valve of the acorn-barnacle (Balanus). The anterior overlapping edge of the valve is the ‘radius,’ the posterior underthrust edge the ‘ala.’